Dissociating emotional and cognitive empathy in pre-clinical and clinical Huntington's disease

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Titre
Dissociating emotional and cognitive empathy in pre-clinical and clinical Huntington's disease
Périodique
Psychiatry Research
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Maurage Pierre, Lahaye Magali, Grynberg Delphine, Jeanjean Anne, Guettat Lamia, Verellen-Dumoulin Christine, Halkin Stéphane, Heeren Alexandre, Billieux Joël, Constant Eric
ISSN
0165-1781
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
237
Pages
103-108
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Huntington’s disease(HD)iscentrallycharacterizedbymotor,neurocognitiveandpsychiatricsymptoms,
but impairedemotionaldecodingabilitieshavealsobeenreported.However,morecomplexaffective
abilities arestilltobeexplored,andparticularlyempathy,whichisessentialforsocialrelationsandis
impaired invariouspsychiatricconditions.Thisstudyevaluatesempathicabilitiesandsocialskillsinpre-
clinical andclinicalHD,andexploresthedistinctionbetweentwoempathysub-components(emotional-
cognitive).Thirty-sixHDpatients(17pre-clinical)and36matchedcontrols filled intheEmpathyQuo-
tient Scale,whilecontrollingforpsychopathologicalcomorbidities.AttheclinicalstageofHD,noglobal
empathyimpairmentwasobservedbutratheraspecific deficit forthecognitivesub-component,while
emotional empathywaspreserved.Adeficit wasalsoobservedforsocialskills.Pre-clinicalHDwasnot
associated withanyempathydeficit. Emotionaldeficits inclinicalHDarethusnotlimitedtobasic
emotion decodingbutextendtowardscomplexinterpersonalabilities.Thedissociationbetweenim-
paired cognitiveandpreservedemotionalempathyinclinicalHDreinforcestheproposalthatempathy
subtypes aresustainedbydistinctprocesses.Finally,theseresultsunderlinetheextentofdistinctaf-
fectiveandsocialimpairmentsinHDandtheneedtograsptheminclinicalcontexts.
Mots-clé
Huntington, Empathy
DOI
10.1016/j.psychres.2016.01.070
Pubmed
26869362
Web of science
000371939300017
Site de l'éditeur
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26869362
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